When we think of old, we think of diminishing qualities of health, strength, and mental capacity. God is none of those things, nothing in Him diminishes. He has all of His attributes in full measure all the time and in everlasting newness. God is not old. God is eternal. He does not age. He is not like an aged man with a white beard sitting on a throne in heaven. The bible says He is Spirit. So, when I say God is New, Ever New I am saying He is perpetually and continually new, fresh, vital, and alive for forever.
Job 29:20 – “My glory will not fade; the bow will be ever new in My hand.” His glory doesn’t regenerate, it is ever new. Lam 3:23 – “His compassions never fail, they are new every morning.” You can count on His newness each day.
Is 43:18-19 – “Forget the former things; do not dwell on the past. See, I am doing a new thing! ” God is a God of bringing you out of the former and bringing you into the new. Don’t stay in the past. Let it go. God wants to do a new thing in your life.
God inspires the new. Ps 40:3 – “He put a new song in my mouth, a hymn of praise to our God." God moves His people to write new praise songs. They are being inspired by God now just as God has inspired the songs of old. This will continue through the generations to come until the end of the world. Rev. 5:9 - And they sang a new song, saying: "You are worthy to take the scroll and to open its seals, because you were slain, and with your blood you purchased for God.
Jer 31:22 – "The Lord will create a new thing on earth." In the beginning the world was created by God and it was all brand new. There is newness all throughout the created world. New crops, new sprouts, and new buds and flowers. A newborn baby of any kind of animal, is so adorable. When God displays the new to us, it really is one of the great joys and pleasures in this world to observe.
But because of sin and the fall of man, there is decay. Decay in creation is not what God initially intended. Rom 8:20-21 says, “creation itself will be liberated from its bondage to decay and brought into the freedom and glory of the children of God.
There is a life-cycle for created things. We grow from infants up to a certain point and then we age for the rest of our days. If you have ever experienced the death of a person’s body before, we know it is not what it is supposed to be. Here is the good news. I Cor 15:44 says, “the body is sown a natural body, but it is raised a spiritual body.” God will take our temporary, perishable, dishonorable, natural body, and make it a permanent, imperishable, perfect spiritual body. It will be similar to Christ’s resurrected, glorified physical body.
Is 65:17-19 - "See, I will create new heavens and a new earth. The former things will not be remembered, nor will they come to mind. But be glad and rejoice forever in what I will create, for I will create Jerusalem to be a delight and its people a joy...the sound of weeping and of crying will be heard in it no more.
Only God as creator can make all things new or create anything new. It is believing that God is able to and will make all things new again and He will keep His promise to do so. He is the God of the new. That gives us hope for tomorrow and helps us to live today knowing we have such a great future ahead.
As the blood of sacrificial animals cleansed people from sin in the OT, so the blood of Jesus Christ would cleanse people from their sin in the NT. Jesus ushered in the new covenant through his shed blood. Jesus is the center of the transition between old and new. II Cor 5:17 - Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come: The old has gone, the new is here! What God loves to do is transform lives. No life is beyond God’s ability to make something new from it.
